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The politics of petulance : America in an age of immaturity / Alan Wolfe.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: Spanish Publisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018Description: ix, 210 pages : illustration ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780226555164 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.51/30973 23
LOC classification:
  • JC574.2.U6 W855 2018
Contents:
Mature liberalism -- Democracy's demagogue -- The return of mass society -- From conspiracy to irony -- Tragedy, comedy, and American democracy -- Immature democracy -- Some lessons for the future.
Summary: In this book he diagnoses what led to Trump: a culture of political immaturity-one that we've seen before, most recently in the McCarthy era, and defeated before. Looking to the midcentury intellectuals who helped win that battle, Wolfe charts a strategy for our own time.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Automatización y Procesos Técnicos (1er. Piso) JC574.2.U6 W855 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000132509

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mature liberalism -- Democracy's demagogue -- The return of mass society -- From conspiracy to irony -- Tragedy, comedy, and American democracy -- Immature democracy -- Some lessons for the future.

In this book he diagnoses what led to Trump: a culture of political immaturity-one that we've seen before, most recently in the McCarthy era, and defeated before. Looking to the midcentury intellectuals who helped win that battle, Wolfe charts a strategy for our own time.

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